The working poor in Wisconsin with the rock-bottom minimum wage of $7. 25 an hour enforced by GOP Gov. Scott Walker now make less than their counterparts in 29 other states after voters in four more states raised those hourly wages as high as $15.
Just part of a wider GOP plan to encourage people to look elsewhere for work, schooling, clean water, and so forth.
And it's not as if companies and entrepreneurs, having seen Walker's little signs at the borders announcing that the state is "open for businesses" are racing to Wisconsin to set up shop, break ground or expand.
Even as Walker and his Legislative allies did the WMC's bidding by converting private sector shops to 'right-to-work,' lower wage operations and got rid of family-supporting 'prevailing wages' on public works projects.
No - - business is not heading to Wisconsin.
Just the opposite. The state's growth is stalled, we rank in the lower third of states nationally in job creation, icons firms like Oscar Mayer and Caterpillar have moved complete lines out of state, Walker's big promise to create 250,000 new private sector jobs in four years is about ti hit the six-year mark without being fulfilled and almost 100 production jobs are leaving Walker's base Waukesha County, it was announced just this week.
But Walker remains unmoved: You may remember he said during his 90-second presidential campaign last year that he doesn't even believe in the concept of a guaranteed minimum wage - - even called it "lame" - - though, as Governor, he is guaranteed a monthly salary of just over $12,000.
Plus a nicely-staffed, beautifully-landscaped, twin-kitchened lakefront mansion, and cars, drivers, airplanes....
Nothing, as someone said, lame about that.
Just part of a wider GOP plan to encourage people to look elsewhere for work, schooling, clean water, and so forth.
And it's not as if companies and entrepreneurs, having seen Walker's little signs at the borders announcing that the state is "open for businesses" are racing to Wisconsin to set up shop, break ground or expand.
Even as Walker and his Legislative allies did the WMC's bidding by converting private sector shops to 'right-to-work,' lower wage operations and got rid of family-supporting 'prevailing wages' on public works projects.
No - - business is not heading to Wisconsin.
Just the opposite. The state's growth is stalled, we rank in the lower third of states nationally in job creation, icons firms like Oscar Mayer and Caterpillar have moved complete lines out of state, Walker's big promise to create 250,000 new private sector jobs in four years is about ti hit the six-year mark without being fulfilled and almost 100 production jobs are leaving Walker's base Waukesha County, it was announced just this week.
But Walker remains unmoved: You may remember he said during his 90-second presidential campaign last year that he doesn't even believe in the concept of a guaranteed minimum wage - - even called it "lame" - - though, as Governor, he is guaranteed a monthly salary of just over $12,000.
Plus a nicely-staffed, beautifully-landscaped, twin-kitchened lakefront mansion, and cars, drivers, airplanes....
Nothing, as someone said, lame about that.